aab added the comment:
Oh mud in face is me (:@{). The problem exists but I exacerbated it with some
patches that worked with the 2.4.3 distribution - removed them.
There is, however, a bit of a saving grace. An #if/#else/#endif near the top
of multiprocessor.c #defines "HAVE_FD_TRANSF
New submission from aab:
python-2.7.9/Modules/_multiprocessing/multiprocessing.c
python-2.7.9/Modules/_multiprocessing/semaphore.c
The compile lines for the above two files have "-DHAVE_SEM_OPEN=1
-DHAVE_FD_TRANSFER=1 -DHAVE_SEM_TIMEDWAIT=0" in them. The cpp code in those
files us